Bialik - King of the Jews

Bialik - King of the Jews

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 12, 2014

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

73%

Original Title

ביאליק: מלך היהודים

Production Companies

Avi Chai Foundation, Hot

Director

Yair Qedar

Budget

$280

Description

By the age of thirty he’d already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world. He spent very few years living in Tel Aviv, but he loved the city dearly. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934. “King of the Jews” is a portrait of the most beloved Jew of his day, Chaim Nachman Bialik. Combining special animation, a voice track by Chaim Topol, rare archival footage, long-forgotten photographs, poems by Bialik performed by Ninet and interviews with the foremost Bialik researchers and fans in Israel and around the world, this film retells the story of the little boy from the shtetl, who became King of the Jews.